Re: [Bobs-devel] filename problems

[Rene R. <re...@gr...>]

I've finally been able to get some useful results.

This is not a perfect solution as far as I can see.

Basically it involves changing the $IFS value in bash to be a newline.
And changing it to the original value after use.

The problem is (or will be) that filenames cannot contain newlines.
I might be able to escape newlines in filenames.

Anyway. This solution is better than the old one so I'm going to update 
the cvs with it.

I'll see if I can test the newline problem and find a solution.


Rene



Joe zacky wrote:
> Have you tried escaping single quotes like this, where $filename is the 
> variable containing the name of the file:
>     \'$filename\'
> 
> Joe
> 
> Rene Rask wrote:
> 
>>The names are quoted. I've tried both double and single quoting.
>>If I can get bash to accept the names as "literal" instead of "glob" it
>>should solve the problem.
>>
>>A name like "some name^Mtest" does not behave well.
>>Only working solution I've found was this way:
>>$'some name^Mtest'
>>But I can't figure out how that is useful in a script.
>>
>>
>>I'll keep trying.
>>
>>-Rene
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 07:26, Joe zacky wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Rene Rask wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>I've been looking into the filename problems.
>>>>
>>>>It seems to me that escaping filenames in PHP will ony lead to a 
>>>>constant headache (which is not what I need right now ;)
>>>>
>>>>I've found a few Bash tricks that look really promising but I haven't 
>>>>cracked the problem yet. I'm able to make Bash escape a filename with 
>>>>weird characters in it. But I'm still not able to do it with input 
>>>>from a list.
>>>>When (if?) I get this working we should be able to stop worrying about 
>>>>filenames.
>>>>If you know any Bash experts please ask if they can help.
>>>>
>>>>-Rene
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>Have you tried "quoting the filenames?" That also works in bash.
>>>
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